Johnson and Johnson’s single-dose Covid vaccine has been given approval for emergency use in India, announced Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Twitter on Saturday.

Now India has 5 EUA vaccines. This will further boost our nation's collective fight against #COVID19, tweeted Mandaviya.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday said that 8,832 people have been rescued from the flood-affected parts of the state, while 29,280 others have been shifted to safer places from these areas so far.

He made the statement while addressing 'Anna Utsav' programme in the morning.

As many as 80 crore Indians got free ration during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday.

These include five crore people from Madhya Pradesh, Modi said, during a video interaction with Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana beneficiaries from the state.

To vaccinate the entire eligible population against COVID-19 as soon as possible, the vaccine production in the country has been increased from 2.5 lakh doses per day to around 40 lakh doses per day, said Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar, Minister of State (MoS) for Health on Friday.

Speaking to ANI, the MoS informed that trials are underway for the COVID vaccine for children.

Pointing at several vacant posts of high court judges and tribunal chairpersons, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday alleged the government is not able to fill these vacancies as it is looking for people who sympathise with its retrograde philosophy and ideology.

Out of 1,080 sanctioned posts of HC judges, 416 are vacant. There is a huge number of vacancies in Tribunals. Posts of Chairperson of several Tribunals are vacant! They include DRT, NCLAT, TDSAT etc the former Union minister said.

India on Saturday reported 38,628 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday. With this, the daily positivity rate remained less than 3 per cent for the last 12 days.

The cumulative caseload in the country reached 3,18,95,385 including 4,12,153 active infections. The active cases constitute only 1.29 per cent of the total infections.

Businessman Raj Kundra who was arrested on July 19 by the Mumbai Crime Branch for being the 'mastermind' behind a pornography racket, had filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court terming his arrest as illegal. The Bombay High Court has reserved its verdict after hearing both parties.

Speaking on the writ petition in the Bombay High Court that Raj Kundra had filed terming his arrest illegal, the public prosecutor said that Raj Kundra is a British citizen.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with the beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) in Madhya Pradesh today (August 7), via video conferencing.

Coronavirus pandemic is the biggest disaster faced by humanity in the last 100 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said during an interaction with Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana beneficiaries.

The global coronavirus caseload has topped 201 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.27 million and vaccinations soared to over 4.34 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Saturday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload, death toll stood and vaccination tally stood at 201,690,263, 4,276,940 and 4,346,167,629, respectively.

White House COVID-19 Data Director Cyrus Shahpar on Friday informed that 50 per cent of Americans are now fully vaccinated.

More than 8,21,000 doses have also been administered in the US including 5,65,000 newly vaccinated people, Shahpar said in a tweet.

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